Silo.



E. G. MGNERNEY.

SILO.

APPLIOATION FILED s511116, 1913.

A 1,109,348. Patented sept. 1, 1914.

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. l EDWARD C. MNERNEY, 0F TQNGANOXIE, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR TOITUNG-LOK SILO `(JOM- PANY, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, A. CORPORATION 0F MISSOURI.

SILO.

To all/whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD C.'MoNEn wir, a citizen ofA the United States of America, residing at Tongaiioxie, in the county of Leavenworth and State of Kansas,

liave invented certain new and vuseful Improvements in Silos, and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will entacting surfaces of the boards should be such as to exclude air and i'noisture. Such is not the case, however, apertures being formed from the expansion and subsequent contraction of the mate'frial. In the type of silos of the aforesaid construction the walls are commonly polygonal in form and composed of a series of planks corresponding with each other in length and having their ends cut at acute angles.` In the vertical direction of the wall the ends of alternate rows, these cut planks overlap the ends of those which they superpose, and hence form overlapping joints. Itis found diliicult in building these forms of silos to alinevthe planks or boards in each row in succession as the wall is built up so that the joints in each row are closely formed and no spaces left between them.

The object of the invention is to afford not only a perfectly sealed Wall through which the passage of air and moisture is prevented, but to enable the individual planksections -in a silo wall to aline them-` selves and afford accurate, close-fitting joints in exact vertical alinement.

The invention will be first fully described and then specifically pointed out in the claim. Y

--Figure 1 is an isometric view of a silo constructed in accordance with the inv.ention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged, broken view of a portion of the wall of the silo, taken at one of the corners of the wall` portions of the individual members being broken away to show the tongue and groove connections. Fig. f3 is a detail isometric view of one of the individual wall members, showing a. portion of an individual wall imember with Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 16, 1913. Serial No. 790,113.

Patented Sept. 1, 1914.

lwhich it is inter-locked and alined. Fig. 4 isv an isometric view of the individual wall member as seen in Fig. 3 in a reverse position. Fig. 5 is an isometric view of an `iiidividual wall member showing the transverse cut or groove upon an opposite end to that seen in Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is an isometric view from the in'ner side portions of the abutting end members of the wall, showing the interlocking member.

Similar numerals of reference indicate drawings.

The vertical wall 10 of the silo, as shown, is composed of the requisite number of individual members or strips, as seen in Figs. 3 and 5, which are the same in length, but for the purposes of the invention are reverse in the cross-groove, which distinguishes one from the other. The member 12,

requisite width and thickness and having plank' or board are cut away at 15 and 16 at opposite angles to each other, the angles being, in the present illustration, the saine. Upon the upper surface of the member 12 is a tongue 1'7 extending in the longitudinal direction of said member and located intermediate the lines of the longitudinal outer surfaces 13. In the lower surface of the member 12, in a vertical line withthe tongue 17, is a longitudinal groove 18. 'In said lower surface ofthe member 12, having the groove 18 and at a point inwardly from the angular surface or end 16, is a transverse groove 19, parallel with said surface 16, and at a` point inwardly from said surface corresponding to that of the tongue 17 from the lines of the outer surfaces 13 of' said member. The member 20, as seen ina reversed position in Fig. 5, is precisely the saine as the member 12 with the exception of the t 'ansverse groove 21, which is formed in the saine lower surface of the member, but at the opposite end of the said inen'iber 20 to that of the transverse groove 19 in the member 12.

In the construction of the silo a base 22 is usually formed of concrete upon the upper surface, on which base the first row of the members 12 are laid. In this row seen in Fig. 2, in which the operations are clearly seen, the groove 18 is not employed. The lower surface of these members may, howeorresponding parts in all the figures of theA as seen in Fig. 3, is a plank or board of the ever, be grooved if desired. "In the laying of the said members, the `form as shown being octagonel, the members are leid in one direction, with the ends to the right eX- tending outwardly and abut the end of en adjacent member until the row is completed.

The next rou7 is formed by the employment of the individual members 2G, which are leid in n reverse direction, the lonofitudinel groove 23 receiving the tongue l( of the member l2, the .end -heving the reverse groove 2l being extendedso as to come flush with the line or" the outer surface i3 of the member 12," thus bringing the transverse groove 21 in position above the tongue l?, when these Vparts ere forced together and forming an interlocking joint. rEhe row is then completed of the members 20, r'ter which e.' ronr of the members 12 are leid, .and so on until the height of Well desired is etteined. The members l2 and'20 may be further secured together by nails et suitable points, thus making the structure rigid and when completed, the rows of the members `19. and 2O are in exact nlinement, thus saving time in construction and e Wall grorded which will exclude nir and moisture. Upon the inner surfaces of the Wells of the silo at the angles formed by the members 12 and 20 nro placed the vertical strips 24, the inner surfaces of which arebeveled et to fit said angular surfaces, the purpose of Which is to break the acute angle of the corners.

The usual door openings 26 are formed in the Well l0, and the doors 27 tted thereto in any Well known manner.

The construction or the Wall es described to the silo zidds to its eiiiciency as Well as affording protection to the ensilage which it isdesigned to receive. Furthermore, it is demonstrated in the practical` application of the invention that a perfect alinement of the individuel members or strips at their ends is obtained with ense and precision and with greater rapidity in construction of thc wall than heretofore.

it is obvious that various materials may be employed in the structure of the silo, which such modifications of the invention es are within the scope of the appended claim.

Having fully described my invention, what new claim ns new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A polygonal structure comprising superimposed rows of units having butt und lap ends, said units each having a. tongue and grooves, the tongue sind longitudinal grooves extending throughout the length of the units, transverse grooves at one end of cach ot said units, seid transverse grooves being parallel with the adjacent end of said units and extending throughout the Widthl of seid units.

EDWARD C. MONERNEY.

Witnesses S. H. CHATTEN, HARRIS HULEN.- 

